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'i- Port Oford News, Thursday, February 20, 1969 Farmers May Get FHA Assistance Farmers and ranchers who have suffered damage and hard ship due to the prolonged win ter storms and as a result have credit needs that can not he met by regular sources of credit should contact the Farmers Home Administration office serving the county In which they live. When widespread need fo r credit becomes obvious and it cannot be supplied by regular credit sources, the areas are then eligible for consideration fo r designation as disaster areas by tlie Secretary of Ag riculture. Emergency loans may then tie made on a county or area wide basis to eligible applicants. In cases where only a few operators need emergency credi , Farmers Home Ad ministration w ill consider their applications on a nondeslgnated basis. Emergency loans at 3%.In terest are made only to appli cants who are unable to obtain the needed credit from private, cooperative or other re sponsible sources, Including other types of FHA loans, and w ill be unable to continue their normal farming o r ranching operations. They w ill be ex pected to return to local sources of credit as soon as possible and in any event within a reason able period. The applicant’ s equity In real estate, chattels, and other assets w ill be considered In determining ability to obtain credit from other sources. The FHA office fo r Josephine and Curry counties Is located in the Dierks Building, Box 311, Grants Pass. The County Supervisor’ s office day is Mon day when he may be contacted fo r more complete information. Increased Immunization Programs Causes Communicable D isease Decline Increased immunization acti vity caused a decline in com municable diseases commonly associated with childhood during 1908, the Oregon State Board of Health said Tuesday. The largest decrease was noted in regular(hard) measles, object of an intensive, state wide vaccination campaign since 1966. The 1968 measles toll dropped to 594 cases, an a ll-tim e low and 66 per cent less than the previous low of 1,725 cases In 1967. P rio r to widespread use of measles vaccine Oregon had up tn 15,000 cases during epidemic years. Vaccine also kept a check on polio, once the most dread- eel of childhood diseases. There were no reported cases In 1968 the third consecutive year the state has t een free of the c rip pling illness. Oregon also had no di phtheria, compared to three ases In 1967. One adult con tracted tetanus but was treated successfully, there was only one case of tetanus In 1967, but it was fatal to a five-year {¡Jm Bill Seeks Legislative Reform Washington, D. C. -Repre sentative John Dellenback (Kep.-Oreg. 4th D is tric t) dis closed today that he has once again joined a group of reform minded Republican Congress men In Introducing of a legislative reorganization b ill to update some of the more archaic procedures In Con gress. “ When the Congress is held back by outmoded systems of operation then the nation Is held back,” Dellenback explained. “ And some of our current rules actually obstruct the legislative process.” This is not the fir s t time that the group of Congressmen has pushed fo r passage of a Congressional reform b ill. Dellenback and other Re publicans Introduced a s im ila r b ill during the 90th Congress. When the House Rules Com mittee tabled the b ill Congress man Dellenback and other re form supporters conducted last October a series of parllm en- tary rules designed to convince the Democrat leadership that the House whould have a chance SON IS BORN Born to M r. and M rs. Edward E. Dwtre, 1049 H a rrie t, Coos Bay, a son, weighing 6 pounds, 3 1/2 ounces, at 6:07 a.m., Feb. 6. The maternal grand parents are M r. and M rs. Leo Blomqulst of North Bend and off pounds sensibly is invited to call 332-3591. HOME FROM CCLLEGE Charles Bates was home from the Community College in As toria to attend the game and Valentine dance at Pacific high ___ school. _____ COUPLE TAKE TRIP Every year pharmaceutical companies sponsor a trip for the senior students in pharmacy at Oregon State University, taking them by train into the eastern part of the United States to visit the laboratories of the big com panies that supply drugs. This year Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bates, sen of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bates, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Verdo Harris of Port Ctford, were privileged to take this trip and they ha ve j ust returned from visiting the laboratories in Chi cago, Indianapolis, Kalamazoo, and other places. TWI LIGHTERS MEET Twi Lighters TOPS club m et Feb.17, for their social evening and honored Geneva Lambert as queen for the month of January. Donna Zitzelberger led in ex- ercistis.Qccticn of officers will be held on March 3. Anyone interested in taking Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R- Ore) said this week the govern ment has maintained constant communication with Oregon to help combat any dangerous run off from the heavy snowfall. Hatfield said he received word from George A. Lincoln, D irector of the Office of Emer gency Preparedness in the White House, that “ all federal agencies having disaster re lie f responsibilities are. . . cooperating to the fullest ex tent In this joint endeavor” with the Oregon Emergency Com mand Post. The Senator had urged the government to be as fu lly pre pared as possible to offer assistance whenever needed in case of any disaster. Hatfield was governor of Ore gon during the Columbus Day Windstorm of 1962, and the Christmas flood of the w inter of 1964-1965. ACTIVITIES DUPLICATE BRIDGE The Port Orford Bridge club were hosts on Sunday to the Unit game with nine tables in play. Winners were North- South, 1st, Bob McClure and Jack Langworthy; 2nd, A. W. Sweet and Fred Horowitz; 3rd, Nancy Starkweather and M yrtle Rose. East-West, 1st, C hris tine Gobel and LoBlse Couts; 2nd, Geneva Tucker and Nadine Kalina; 3rd, G erri Preston and Maude W eir. On Wednesday, Feb. 12 there were four tables of Duplicate bridge in play at the American Legion hall In Port Orford and tlie winners were 1st, Maude Weir and Adolph Windmaiser; 2nd, M r. and M rs. Charles Dougherty and 3rd, M r. and Mrs. Joe Halbersleben. MESSY FINGERS Hie third meeting of the 4- 11 Messy Fingers cooking club was called to order by the president, Paula Roberts, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Robert G. Roberts. Under new business, Junior Leader, L o ri Loshbaugh sug gested that when projects are all completed at the end of the year, the club combines with the Pins and Needles sewing club fo r a s t y l e r e v ie w . The clothing would be presented by the sewing club and the refreshments would be pre pared by the cooking club, tlie affa ir to be held at Bullards Park. This was approved by a unanimous vote. L o ri Loshbaugh and Linda Stevenson volunteered to work as a committee to make dough nuts as a demonstration at tlie next meeting which w ill be Sat urday, March 8. VISITS SMITHS A friend of M r. and M rs. O rris Smith of Port O rford, Cecil R ill from Heppner, was a houseguest fo r a few days. IN MYRTLE POINT M r. and Mrs. A lbert Britton of Denmark went to M yrtle Point Feb. 9 to see their grand the paternal grandparents are M r. and M rs. Elton Dwlre of Sixes. to vote on the b ill. But despite the Senate’ s overwhelming ap proval of a legislative reorgan ization b ill in early 1967, the Rules Committee never allowed the House version to come to the floor. “ Although the Democrat leadership did not see f it to let us vote on reorganization,” Dellenback said, “ we did suc ceed In emphasizing the drastic need fo r reform in Congress, and the results of our efforts w ill stand us in good stead now.” The Congressman expects widespread support of the 1969 Legislative Reorganization B ill. “ Already 24 House Re publicans are cosponsoring the b ill and we are sending a letter to a ll House members asking them to join us.” daughter, Mary Powrle, In stalled as Worthy Advisor of the International O rder of Rain bow. Another granddaughter. Sue Powrle, was Installed as musician fo r the coming year. The hall was decorated with blue flowers which were made by the g irls . Aid Pledged the German measles vaccine, and the disease Itself, some times produce short-term arth ritic symptoms in female adults, tentative plans call fo r Initial immunization of young children to protect mothers from exposure. Meanwhile, the Board of Health’ s Immunization Pro gram continues to stress that communicable childhood dis eases, particularly regular measles and polio, w ill recur In large numbers If Immuni zation Is not started at In fancy and followed by necessary boosters. During 1968, the state pro gram distributed about 67,000 does of oral polio vaccine and 24/100 doses of measles vac cine to private physicians and local health departments. In addition, about 17,000 children were Immunized a g a in s t measles on “ Mop Up Measles Day” on March 31 of this year. Immunizations or Infor mation concerning them may be obtained from fam ily phy sicians or local public health departments. tri. The 1968 mumps total was 1,025 but incidence of this dis ease can be expected to de crease In the future because an effective vaccine is now available through private physi cians. Although German measles cases dropped to 625 In 1968, compared to 986 in 1967, epid emiologists expect the disease to occur in epidemic pro portions over the country In 1970 or 1971. However, a Ger- iricasles vaccine Is expected to be ready this spring to head off the disease, which is relatively harmless to child ren hut causes serious con- enltal birth defects when con tracted by mothers In their firs t three months of pregnancy. Studies are now being made nationally and locally to deter mine which age groups w ill receive the vaccine firs t. Since Sales Tax Fight Brings Voter Register Drive SAI EM— The Oregon A F L - CIO today urged all union mem bers throughout the state to check their voter registration status and If not registered to become registered Immediate ly. Edward J. Whelan, president of the state labor body, said that all unions and county and area labor councils have been requested to make voter reg istration their number one ob jective In order to Insure de feat of the “ 111-concelved sales tax measure which majority party leaders in the Oregon legislature have determined w ill be offered as property tax re lie f.” The state AFL-CIO, Whelan aikied, is cooperating with all groups who are attempting to Inform the puvple concerning the tact that what Is about to be offered for their consider ation Is neither tax relief nor additional fundi ft ■ adw a tt i . •’With the Ikiuse tax coin» mlttee action today sending die sales tax package to die flm r and die Senate tax committee indicating consistently that It w ill go along with the House leadership moves, the citizens of Oregon are faced with not only an additional tax but with changes In the baste school support fund formula of state aid with which no one knows what the effect w ill be on most 1« < al school d is tric ts ,” Whelan t>aid. "F u rth e rm o re , die legis lative leaders who have approved this package have re jected the advice of most tax economists In locking certain tax and school support matters In die constitution as well as dedicating steadily Increasing tax revenue fo r a specific pur pose. " n il s could very well lead to a shortage of funds for other essential needs In the neai future and thus compound Ore gon’ s application of Its revenue resources tor essential needs.” Commercial Fish License R aise On The House Committee on Fish and Game of the C ie g c c Legis lature will have a hearing in Salem Thursday,February 27, at 3 p. m ., in Capitol Room 19A on House Bill 1130 which will increase the commercial fish ing license fees effective Jan uary 1, 1970, amending ORS 508. 285. This bill will increase reven ues from commercial fishing license fees by approximately 50 per cent. This fee increase is included in the Governor's rec ommended budget and is pro posed to partially reimburse the General Fund for various pro gram improvements in the Fish Commission's programs relating to increased production of an- adromous fish. School Zone Caution Asked Oregon motorists were cautioned today to check their speedometers when driving through school zones. According to the T raffic Safety Commission, Oregon law sets the designated speed when passing school grounds or school crossings at 20 mph. This Is In effect when child ren are going to and from school or during recess periods. “ If you’ re not fa m ilia r with school hours,” explained a Commission spokesman, “ It’ s a good rule of thumb to de crease your speed anytime you are pass trig a school. Ih e re are any number of reasons why children could be on the way to and from school during irre g u la r boura.” He rem lndel drivers that children are not as safety con scious as they should be. **ln their mind Is a tra ffic acci dent,” die spokes'rush said. “ School children are thinking of activities that lie ahead- walking, talking, perhaps ever' running. "They may readily step out Into the street, not realizing just how long It takes fo r a car to stoii. And, of course, the faster you are driving, the longei It would take you to stop." The Commission reported that 22 pedestrian fatalities in 1967 Involved youngsters under 14. Another 469 were Injured. “ No one wants to be re sponsible fo r the death of a child, or fo r maiming him for life ,*' the spokesman concluded. “ Expect children to be care less; be prepared anu watch that speed In school zones.” ' I RENTED IT 1 THROUGH THE > ’ WANT ADS G IA N T SIZE fcAkqurr lac:, the furthest thing C herry P ie s 3^1 Fean. 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